Problem with Regex and Matcher

[Mark Read]

I have a text line read from a HTML page, example:

line="<p><a href="thumbs/leralyn-1-7892.jpg"><img alt="" src="thumbs/leralyn-1.jpg" border="2" height="284" width="200"></a><br>"

I want to extract the filename and have been using the FlickrViewer as basic code. I have only made a few minor changes to the HandleMainPage sub.

My catch pattern is as follow:

pattern="<a href=qthumbs/\w+\.jpgq".Replace("q", QUOTE)   '<a href="thumbs/somename.jpg">

The regex command should pull out the filename as commented in pattern above.

m = Regex.Matcher(pattern, line)

The problem is that it doesn't work, my pattern is wrong.

I have traced the problem to the "-" in the filename but I cannot change this, the files are on a public server. Using a workaround I replaced the "-" with a "_" and then everything works.

Does anyone have a better mask for the pattern variable?

Thanks, Mark

 

[Erel]

Change \w+ to [\w-]+

 

[Mark Read]

@Erel

If only life was as simple as your answers. Thanks, works a dream.

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